Archives by Tag 'London School of Economics'
MSc Scholarships in Population Studies at LSE
Master’s degrees in population studies: £15,000 scholarships available
Are you thinking about doing a Master’s degree in the field of population studies in 2009/2010?
Students accepted for the
MSc in Population and Development, or
MSc Health, Population and Society, or
MSC Social Research Methods (Population)
at the LSE will be eligible to be considered for nomination for a £15,000 scholarship from [...]
Reproductive Health in Poor Countries
Poverty and Reproductive Health in Poor Countries: Issues, Measurement & Evidence
BSPS day meeting
Sponsored in collaboration with the ESRC
Venue: New Academic Building (NABL09), LSE
Friday 29th May, 2009
Background
The burden of out-of-pocket expenditure related to reproductive health service
use remains largely unexplored in poor country contexts. The knock-on effect of
poverty on reproductive health is difficult to quantify given limited [...]
LSE Seminar: Population, Education and Development
“Population, Education and Development: Addressing the Interactions”
LSE Population Research Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Lutz
Leader, World Population Program
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Chair: Prof. Mike Murphy, Professor of Demography, LSE
Abstract:
Education is a key determinant if international development. This Seminar
presents new projections of populations by age, sex and four levels of
educational attainment for more than 120 countries and [...]
Workshop: Fertility declines in the past, present and future
Call for participants
‘Fertility declines in the past, present and future: what we don’t know and what we need to know’
A joint workshop of
the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
the British Society for Population Studies
and
the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Dates: 15-17th July 2009
Location: Cambridge Group for the History [...]
BSPS meeting: Health & mortality using record linkage data in the UK
BSPS day meeting: Health and mortality using record linkage data in the UK
LG03, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
14th May 2009
Programme
10.30 Registration and Coffee
11.00 Introduction by the Chair
11.10 Marital history and mortality using ONS Longitudinal Study data, Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
3.50 Final questions and comments
4.00 End of meeting
3.10 Associations between [...]
Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Wednesday May 13 th 2009 10.30 -16.00
London School of Economics
Room LG01, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields
The BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the BSPS are taking the opportunity of the publication of ‘Sleepwalking to Segregation’? Challenging myths about race and immigration by Nissa Finney [...]
BSPS Prize 2009 – Best MSc Dissertation
BSPS Prize 2009
Entries are invited for the 2009 BSPS Prize.
This is awarded to the entry judged to be the best MSc. Dissertation on a demographic topic during the year 2008 (which would normally be at or around distinction level). Applicants should supply four copies of their dissertation, which do not need to be bound – [...]
POPFEST 2009 – Call for papers
We would like to draw your attention to Popfest 2009, the 17th annual conference of postgraduate students in Population-related studies. Popfest 2009 will be taking place from the 2nd July to the 4th of July 2009, and will be hosted by the Population At LSE research students at the London School of Economics and Political Science [...]